Musk activated Starlink over Ukraine shortly after Russia launched its full-scale invasion in 2022. Finnish President Alexander Stubb has urged SpaceX owner Elon Musk to expand Starlink coverage into parts of Russia, saying it could help Ukraine locate and strike Russian ballistic missile launchers.Stubb said he had appealed directly to Musk to allow Starlink to…
The eco-moorings used at Studland Bay are designed to avoid that movement across the seabed (Photo: National Trust via The Guardian) At England’s Studland Bay, damage to seagrass caused by traditional boat anchors has fallen sharply after eco-moorings were introduced, with scars in one trial area shrinking by 94% between 2021 and 2025. Researchers say…
JD Vance’s new H-1B warning to corporate America. Vice President JD Vance doubled down on White House’s recent action against H-1B visa abuse and put out a message to corporate America: “We’re not going to let you lay off American workers so you can replace them with cheap foreign labor.” The message was linked to…
A major property deal that began more than a century ago with a grieving widow turned a huge private wilderness in North Carolina into one of the most important public conservation achievements in American history. In May 1914, Edith Vanderbilt agreed to sell 86,700 acres of valuable mountain forest from the private Biltmore Estate to…
US President Donald Trump with Chinese President Xi Jinping TOI correspondent from Washington: Implicitly suggesting that China is catching up with the United States if it hasn’t already, Chinese President Xi Jinping told Americans on Thursday that the two countries can avoid the historic conflict that often accompanies the rise of a new power, declaring…
Gavin Newsom’s San Francisco childhood home is on the market for $4.5 million, decades after his family sold the property. (Photo: Getty/Kit Castagne, Arbor Visual Media) California Governor Gavin Newsom’s San Francisco childhood home has hit the market for $4.5 million, decades after his family sold the property. Newsom lived in the two-level house for…
Abbas kept from UNGA podium again as US denies visa, speaks by video Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas addressed the UN General Assembly on Thursday through prerecorded remarks from his office in Ramallah after the United States denied visas to him and other senior Palestinian officials to attend the gathering in person for the second consecutive…
Silicon Valley opposes Trump administration’s $103K H-1B fee proposal. TechNet, an industry association representing major US technology companies, has urged the Trump administration to withdraw a proposed $103,265 fee on certain new H-1B visa petitions, saying the measure could make it harder for US companies to recruit highly skilled workers, Wall Street Journal reported. The…
Nisarga Adhikary was appointed as an Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) and Threat Intelligence Engineer at C3iHub, IIT Kanpur, in June. Nisarga Adhikary, a 19-year-old cybersecurity researcher who identified security vulnerabilities in the CBSE’s On-Screen Marking portal, has been recognised by the US Department of Justice for responsibly reporting flaws in government systems.Adhikary announced the recognition on…
The discovery also has implications far beyond Lassen Volcanic National Park. Astrobiologists study extremophiles to understand the physical and chemical boundaries within which life can survive In the steaming pools of California’s Lassen Volcanic National Park, life has found a way to thrive where most cells would begin to fall apart. Hidden in geothermal waters,…
